Not Hated

I was not hated because of that and cannot understand how anyone was I was not taught that I must fear that others would hate me because of that in simple days when I was young and I would play in bright sun fields of green and flowers bright and simple joys of the young I friends and I all would play on every day joy had we until the day where we would part and I did go where they did not I was taught by adults what to believe and what was right and what to do on a day where the others still would play of my friends someone come and some others they would not and the rift between us grew and some would hate us because we did and when we went we were taught of the story of who we were of the hatred that others held and of all the violence our history held taught of how others did hate and some of us they would kill because they did not understand we were the same as our fellow man our people hunted and driven forth tarred and feathered and houses burned cast into prison without charge where the mobs would come and kill and as I grew I did learn of the truth of the words I was hated for my beliefs and persecuted because of them there were jobs I could not have and opportunities denied to me places where I could not go and many things I could not do I was taught to understand to be a friend of all mankind to never hate for who they were that we all my brothers be no I do not understand why they are hated because of that and could never know how it was to be hated because of that but I have learned that hate runs free and is done for many of the things because of beliefs and differences and of things we did not choose oh that we might choose to be full of love for everyone accepting of the differences in who we are and what we may be